[chirp_users] Uv5r question

[Charles Byars]

Antenna is the main thing that has to be upgraded on most handheld


On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 5:32 PM ken hartmann <115irons at gmail.com> wrote:

> My buddy and I just purchased baofeng uv5r radios, we have them programmed
> using chirp, we were trying to hit a repeater in the middle of us, about 23
> miles total so maybe 11 miles from each of us. Sometimes he could hear me
> but I couldn't hear him, then I could hear him and he couldn't hear me, is
> this an antenna issue ? We are using the rubber duckies that came with
> them, I also saw a setting for repeaters delay on the settings section, it
> is set to off, does that need to be changed ? Thankyou ken
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